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CVE-2017-17227

GPU driver in Huawei Mate 10 smart phones with the versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.120(C212); The versions before ALP-L09

GPU driver in Huawei Mate 10 smart phones with the versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.120(C212)

The versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.127(C900)

The versions before ALP-L09 8.0.0.128(402/C02/C109/C346/C432/C652) has a out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability due to the input parameters validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can call the driver with special parameter and cause accessing out-of-bounds memory. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.01009
EPSS exploitation odds1.01% · top 40%
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
No Sigma yet — build one → YARA rules0
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This page is every public fact about CVE-2017-17227, cross-linked. Its job is to answer one question fast - does this need my attention now? - and then hand you the two things you do about it. Here is how an analyst reads it.
Triage: should I act now? Four signals, and they are not interchangeable:
CVSSseverity - how bad it is IF exploited, 0-10. A high CVSS alone is not urgency; a flaw can be a perfect 10 and never actually be attacked. EPSSprobability - a model’s estimate of the chance it is exploited in the next 30 days, 0-1. This is the “will it actually happen” signal. CISA KEVconfirmed - it is being exploited in the wild right now. The strongest signal on the page; KEV beats any score. Weaponisedavailability - public exploits / PoCs, and especially Metasploit modules rated Excellent / Great. Reliable, packaged exploit code means low-skill attackers can use it today.
How they combine: KEV, or a dependable Metasploit module, means patch now regardless of CVSS. High CVSS + low EPSS + no exploit is real but not an emergency - schedule it. Low CVSS but KEV-listed still gets patched now. The verdict above already weighed these for you; this is how it got there.
Then what - two workflows:
Detectwhen you cannot patch today, follow this CVE to the ATT&CK techniques it enables, then Build a SIEM detection (the green button) - author a rule, test it in Atomic, deploy it. That buys visibility while the patch waits. PatchAffected products / packages tell you if you are exposed; Fixed versions by distribution and Vendor advisories give the exact version that closes it.
Reading order for the panels below: verdict + badges, then Public exploits / Metasploit (is it weaponised), then ATT&CK techniques + Sigma / IDS rules (can I detect it), then Affected products / packages + Fixed versions (am I exposed, what patches it), then Threat actors / IOCs (who uses it), then Scoring & timeline / references (the evidence).
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Exploitation momentum

41 days of EPSS
dormant
Flat and low - no real exploitation pressure. This reads the direction and speed of EPSS over time, which can move before EPSS itself peaks or before CISA lists it.
Window
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Severity & exploitation scoring

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CVSS base score
7.8
HIGHCVSS v3.0 · [email protected]
EPSS exploitation probability
1.01%
Top 40%odds of exploitation in the next 30 days
CVSS metric silhouette
VectorComplexityPrivilegesInteractionScopeConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
shape grows toward worst-case
SSVC triage
No SSVC vulnrichment for this CVE. CISA's Vulnrichment program scores newer CVEs (~2024 onwards) plus selected older critical ones. Use the EPSS probability + KEV status to triage instead.
CVSS vector breakdown
Exploitability - how they get in
Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Impact - what breaks
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
VECTORCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lifecycle
  1. 09 Mar 2018Published to NVD
  2. 17 Jun 2026Last modified
Every entry is a recorded date - NVD publish/modify, CISA KEV add, public exploit disclosure. No inferred events.
Attack path
Full kill chain
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ATT&CK techniques

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Techniques this CVE enables. Pills with a solid outline are high confidence - named directly in ATT&CK or Nuclei, or human-curated by CTID; the rest are inferred from the weakness type using MITRE's CVE Mapping Methodology and the CWE → CAPEC chain. Broad, generic-weakness guesses are filtered out. A small N× marks a technique that N independent sources agree on.

T1203 · Exploitation for Client Execution
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CAPEC attack patterns

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Attack patterns this CVE enables - the bridge from weakness to ATT&CK technique.

CAPEC-CAPEC-540 · Overread Buffers
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Weakness Classification

CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write
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Affected Products & Versions

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huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.120\(c212\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.127\(c900\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(402\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c02\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c109\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c346\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c432\)
huawei mate 10 firmware< alp-l09_8.0.0.128\(c652\)
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Related CVEs

8
CVEs linked to this one by a shared weakness (CWE) or affected product - joins on data already in the engine, with the reason shown per row.
CVE-1999-0022 Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via expstr() func... same CWE-125 HIGH CVE-1999-0029 root privileges via buffer overflow in ordist command on SGI IRIX systems. 1 same CWE-125 HIGH CVE-1999-0006 Buffer overflow in POP servers based on BSD/Qualcomm's qpopper allows remote att... 2 same CWE-125 CRITICAL CVE-2004-0183 TCPDUMP 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (... same CWE-125 CVE-2002-2227 Buffer underflow in ssldump 0.9b2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a... same CWE-787 CVE-2003-0870 Heap-based buffer overflow in Opera 7.11 and 7.20 allows remote attackers to exe... 1 same CWE-787 CVE-2003-1396 Heap-based buffer overflow in Opera 6.05 through 7.10 allows remote attackers to... 1 same CWE-787 CVE-2004-0398 Heap-based buffer overflow in the ne_rfc1036_parse date parsing function for the... same CWE-787
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180207-01-smartphone-en
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